New Version of FX.php

[Chris Hansen <FX@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

New Version of FX.php, FileMaker and PHP together!

Announcing the latest version of FX.php, a free, Open-Source PHP 
class which makes FileMaker Pro Data accessible via PHP.  FileMaker 
Pro's Ease-of-Use and feature set have earned it a place in the 
hearts of many users.  PHP is fast, flexible, runs most anywhere, and 
is able to access most any database.

FX.php is a PHP class which combines the ease of use of FileMaker Pro 
with the power of PHP.  FX does this by parsing the XML created by 
FileMaker Pro's Web Companion into a multi-level array.  Once in this 
form, you can use PHP's powerful functions to sort, display, and 
otherwise massage your data.  There are even hooks built into FX to 
allow it to work with a MySQL caching class developed by Chris Adams. 
This cache improves the performance of your web-based FileMaker 
solution by approximately two orders of magnitude!  Best of all, you 
don't have to give up FileMaker Pro's ease-of-use to get all of this.

The latest version of FX adds a number of improvements and features:
- Added a function to display the names of active, available 
databases. (Thanks to Arjen Brouwer!)
- Added a function to display the names of available layouts in a 
database. (Thanks to Arjen Brouwer!)
- Added the ability to send larger pieces of data to the Web 
Companion via a POST query.
  (Thanks to all those who asked indirectly for this! =)
- Other minor fixes...

Using PHP to serve your FileMaker data has a number of advantages:
- PHP is free and cross-platform
- Numerous, powerful, and widely varied functions
- Excellent on-line Documentation (see www.php.net/manual/en/)
- Numerous books on the subject
- PHP is fast

For more information on FX, please visit www.iViking.org, and follow 
the link on the front page.  For answers to your questions, send 
e-mail to FX@xxxxxxxxxxxx  Enjoy!

--Chris Hansen
  Web Guru

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